Inducted into the Brown University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991. He was ranked number 90 on The Sporting News' 1995 Top 100 Most Powerful People in Sports.

His trademark nicknames actually started by accident. According to him, he and his buddies used to drink what they called "Frank Tanana Daquiris", and one day on camera, when he mentioned Frank Tanana, he ended up saying Frank Tanana Daquiri without even thinking about it. This caused the technical director to shout "What?!" in his ear, and one of the camera men starting laughing so hard he was actually shaking the camera up and down.